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These Smart Social Media Tactics Will Help You Prevent A Crisis

Melissa Agnes

Editor’s Note: This is a great blog post that gives you an overview of what you can do, right now, to prevent a crisis. A company with two plane crashes in the last year asks people to post their bucket list destinations on social media. A social media manager loses their temper in a customer service post on Facebook.

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Crisis Communications & Social Media When “It” Hits the Fan

PRSay

To be an expert in crisis communications you have to move your organization at the speed of Twitter when “it” hits the fan. In short order, it was followed a barrage of requests from media asking to use the footage. Social media is your competition. It’s time to face the music. Who is winning that competition?

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sparked: A new kind of social media training program

Communications Conversations

“Arik, I have a couple team members I need to train up when it comes to social media ad buying–where should I send them?” Sure, classes exist that cover social media and digital marketing at the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Or, there are social media certificate programs.

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Revisiting Social Media: Power, Performance and Planning

PR in High Definition

Is social media too powerful? I wondered if this is really what social networking meant? When our PR agency Firefly was born, I could not have imagined the mere existence of social media, let alone the impact it would have. Does social media actually have too much power and influence?

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Why You Should Hire a Crisis Communications Agency?

Prohibition

Having a crisis communication plan in place ahead of time reduces confusion, ensures an effective communication flow, and improves messaging timeliness during or after a crisis. The basics of good crisis communications are the same for every company. The basics of good crisis communications are the same for every company.

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Personal Versus Private in PR and Social Media

Cision

As digital and social media continue to blur the lines between an individual’s public and private lives, and we move forward in a world where the fusion of these two seems inevitable, it is crucial for all of us to understand the difference between what is private and what is personal, but public. That’s media training 101.

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Speed Matters in a Crisis Situation: Shark Week Case Study, Part 3

Shift Communications

Check out part 1 and part 2 before diving into the following post on the importance of speed during a crisis situation. . While they may be faster than Michael Phelps in the water , they are way too slow in controlling their narrative in the media. There’s a crisis communications mantra: tell it all, tell it early and tell it yourself.